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-Traffic monitoring. Partner with a few delivery companies, and you can start to push live traffic feeds to the web. Start in one city to test feasibility, then

-Traffic monitoring. Partner with a few delivery companies, and you can start to push live traffic feeds to the web. Start in one city to test feasibility, then grow. -Maps. Let people register to record a trip from their home to work. Send the package, they set it up on their dashboard, record the round-trip, then send the package to the next location. -Secret shopping. Boy, do they treat people poorly at some places. Please take a live feed, so employees can be fired or rewarded on the spot. - Recording Clubs live, so I know what it looks like before I go and spend 10 bucks to get in and find it empty.

abstractbill 17y ago
Recording Clubs live We have http://justin.tv/dnalounge http://justin.tv/dnalounge - that one has worked out pretty well, but obviously jwz isn't your average club owner. I'd love to see someone start a jtv-based business that helps all the other clubs get online (but I have no idea what YC would think of it - just in case that needs to be said!).
- RK 17y ago
  Live music is the first thing that I thought of. It would be cool for bands to be able to stream their shows live on their own sites, facebook pages, etc.
  - pg 17y ago
    We would be very interested in a startup that let bands make extra money by streaming their shows.
shrike 17y ago
The traffic monitoring idea could work on its own. UPS & Fedex already tracks their trucks (I think). If you could buy access to that data you could publish detailed drive time info for a big part of the developed world. The data from FedEx|UPS wouldn't have any privacy issues around it; easy for them to implement a feed, no really advanced new tech involved anywhere in the process. I think the majority of the work would be licensing/business relationship stuff. I'm not sure who you could sell the data to? Set yourself up to be acquired by Google/Navtech/XM Sirus? Something to think about.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago
  Let's say you partner with a few pizza and taco delivery companies in San Fransisco. They record the traffic on the go, and the feed gets pushed to the website. It could be useful to have a snapshot of traffic before leaving home/office. I think it is easier to cut a deal with small shops, than big Fedex. Forget traffic, what if we simply wanted a safer world, and decided to record what's happening in the streets while driving. This live feed can make the world such a better place.
  - shrike 17y ago
    The problem there would be two-fold. A smaller business probably wouldn't have GPS tracking already implemented so our startup would have to be involved with the capitol cost of equipping their vehicles with that hardware at $400-$500/vehicle plus the apps/infrastructure to aggregate and upload the data to us. Also I think the coverage would be spotty/sporadic. Who orders take-out in the morning? There goes the morning commute customer base. FedEx, UPS have trucks on the road 24/7. Also the time involved in the bus dev working with 200-500 pizza|taco|Chinese restaurants would be huge. Three data sources (FedEx, UPS, DHL?), a few tens of millions of consumers accessing the data via two or three methods is doable. I just can't figure out how to make make any money on it. As to the make the world a safer place I do not accept the argument that more cameras = safer world. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1
    - gojomo 17y ago
      Cell towers already have this info -- and the volume should make up for the imprecision, as by now an overwhelming majority of vehicles in motion must have an active cell phone inside. So video is overkill for traffic monitoring. See also Dash Navigation: http://www.dash.net http://www.dash.net
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        totally OT: Gordon, I sent you email regarding the lists, they are ready for download did you receive the mail ? (my internet connection is on the blink, great moment for it) Jacques

abstractbill 17y ago

Recording Clubs live We have http://justin.tv/dnalounge http://justin.tv/dnalounge - that one has worked out pretty well, but obviously jwz isn't your average club owner. I'd love to see someone start a jtv-based business that helps all the other clubs get online (but I have no idea what YC would think of it - just in case that needs to be said!).

RK 17y ago
Live music is the first thing that I thought of. It would be cool for bands to be able to stream their shows live on their own sites, facebook pages, etc.
- pg 17y ago
  We would be very interested in a startup that let bands make extra money by streaming their shows.

shrike 17y ago

The traffic monitoring idea could work on its own. UPS & Fedex already tracks their trucks (I think). If you could buy access to that data you could publish detailed drive time info for a big part of the developed world. The data from FedEx|UPS wouldn't have any privacy issues around it; easy for them to implement a feed, no really advanced new tech involved anywhere in the process. I think the majority of the work would be licensing/business relationship stuff. I'm not sure who you could sell the data to? Set yourself up to be acquired by Google/Navtech/XM Sirus? Something to think about.

rokhayakebe 17y ago
Let's say you partner with a few pizza and taco delivery companies in San Fransisco. They record the traffic on the go, and the feed gets pushed to the website. It could be useful to have a snapshot of traffic before leaving home/office. I think it is easier to cut a deal with small shops, than big Fedex. Forget traffic, what if we simply wanted a safer world, and decided to record what's happening in the streets while driving. This live feed can make the world such a better place.
- shrike 17y ago
  The problem there would be two-fold. A smaller business probably wouldn't have GPS tracking already implemented so our startup would have to be involved with the capitol cost of equipping their vehicles with that hardware at $400-$500/vehicle plus the apps/infrastructure to aggregate and upload the data to us. Also I think the coverage would be spotty/sporadic. Who orders take-out in the morning? There goes the morning commute customer base. FedEx, UPS have trucks on the road 24/7. Also the time involved in the bus dev working with 200-500 pizza|taco|Chinese restaurants would be huge. Three data sources (FedEx, UPS, DHL?), a few tens of millions of consumers accessing the data via two or three methods is doable. I just can't figure out how to make make any money on it. As to the make the world a safer place I do not accept the argument that more cameras = safer world. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1
  - gojomo 17y ago
    Cell towers already have this info -- and the volume should make up for the imprecision, as by now an overwhelming majority of vehicles in motion must have an active cell phone inside. So video is overkill for traffic monitoring. See also Dash Navigation: http://www.dash.net http://www.dash.net
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      totally OT: Gordon, I sent you email regarding the lists, they are ready for download did you receive the mail ? (my internet connection is on the blink, great moment for it) Jacques